O.J. Simpson will be cremated; estate executor says'hard no' to controversial ex-athlete ’s brain being studied for CTE
A lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson, who died from cancer last week at 76, said Sunday that the former NFL star’s body will be cremated in the coming days, and there are no plans to have his brain donated to science. “On at least one occasion, someone has called saying he’s a CTE guy who studies…#ojsimpson #nfl #malcolmlavergne #simpson #margueritewhitley #nicolebrownsimpson #brownsimpson #ronaldgoldman #goldman #goldmans (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
2 cicada broods will emerge around the same time in the U.S.
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with entomologist Michael Raupp about the two cicada broods that will emerge in parts of the U.S. in a few weeks. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Lessons In Chemistry’ Star Brie Larson On The “Great Challenge” Of Translating Science & Potential For Season 2
Lessons in Chemistry star and executive producer Brie Larson, showrunner and executive producer Lee Eisenberg, and show’s co-stars Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King were at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the Apple TV+ limited drama series and the potential for a second season.…#chemistry #brielarson #leeeisenberg #lewispullman #apple #bonniegarmus #lessonsinchemistry #elizabethzott #larson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Maybe the NHS can ’t wait to get me off its list | Brief letters
NHS waiting list | Spineless politicians | Anger managementAt first I was pleasantly surprised when asked, in my NHS app, whether I still wanted to remain on a waiting list for a minor operation (Almost 10 million people in England could be on NHS waiting list, 3 April). I now wonder whether this was more about the government ’s method of reducing waiting lists rather than my medical need.Nick PageWinchester• I read your print headline “Invertebrate of the year: Celebrating the diverse and spineless creatures of the UK ” (13 April) and wondered why it wasn ’t in the politics section.Shareen Ca...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: NHS Health Psychology Source Type: news
Do you want to receive more love? First get to know your superego
It ’s the internal voice whose strict, unbending standards can make us miserable. But tuning in to it can change everythingSign up for Well Actually, a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessWhen I first became her patient, I heard everything my therapist said as a criticism. Almost every word that came out of her mouth, I received as a telling off, a character assassination or a low mark. I thought to myself: “I’m paying this woman to help me and all she’s doing is criticising me! How rude!”Here ’s a made-up example that has a lot of truth in it: if I lost my mobile phone and described my feelings of ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Moya Sarner Tags: Health & wellbeing Life and style Society Psychology Source Type: news
World ’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
Meeting at London ’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable featuresIf you zoomed out on the universe, well beyond the level of planets, stars or galaxies, you would eventually see a vast, evenly speckled expanse with no notable features. At least, that has been the conventional view.The principle that everything looks the same everywhere is a fundamental pillar of the standard model of cosmology, which aims to explain the big bang and how the universe has evolved in the 13.7bn years since.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Space Science Research Education Higher education Source Type: news
How to give kids autonomy?'Anxious Generation' author says a license to roam helps
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Source: NPR Health and Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michaeleen Doucleff Source Type: news
The disease-busting hybrids that could bring back the majestic English elm
The tree all but vanished in the 1970s. Now, thanks to two amateur nature lovers, it may soon grace our landscapes againConstable painted them. Shakespeare wrote of them. And Francis Drake sailed the world in a ship made from them. English elms were a mainstay of England ’s landscape and culture – until they all but disappeared to Dutch elm disease in the 1970s.Since that devastation, when 25m elms were felled, enthusiasts and academics have searched for varieties resistant tothe fungus spread by Scolytus beetles that kills the trees.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: James Tapper Tags: UK news Trees and forests Environment Science Source Type: news
Bryson DeChambeau Could Win More Than Just A Green Jacket If He Takes Home Victory At The Masters
Bryson DeChambeau is a polarizing figure since he entered the professional golf world in 2016. For as many people who loved him for his knack for science, unconventional methods like playing with irons that are all the same length as his six-iron and unique sense of style, he always had more…#brysondechambeau #liv #google #alphabetincgooggoogl #snapincsnapssnapchat #dechambeau #paigespiranac #youtubers #granthorvat #horvat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How 17-year-old Ukrainian Valeriia escaped a Russian re-education camp
17-year-old Ukrainian Valeriia was abducted to a Russian re-education camp in Crimea. She tells Euronews how she made it back to Ukraine on her own. Before the full-scale invasion, 17-year-old Valeriia lived an ordinary life as a 10th-grade student, preparing for exams and taking part in…#russian #crimea #ukraine #novakakhovka #khersonoblast #crimean #ministryofeducation #science #oleksandramatviichuk #ukrainians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?
The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of ageTwenty years ago, scientists announced they had created a new miracle material that was going to transform our lives. They called itgraphene.Consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexa gonal pattern, it is one of the strongest materials ever made and, for good measure, it is a better conductor of electricity and heat than copper.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Science Editor Tags: Materials science Manufacturing sector Technology sector Technology startups Physics UK news Source Type: news
What business can I start a Computer Science graudate?
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Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dinosaur data: can the bones of the deep past help predict extinctions of the future?
Millions of years ago, animals adapted to become warm-blooded amid huge climactic changes. Now scientists hope these clues from the past could help us understand what lies aheadIn Chicago ’s Field Museum, behind a series of access-controlled doors, are about 1,500 dinosaur fossil specimens. The palaeobiologist Jasmina Wiemann walks straight past the bleached leg bones – some as big as her – neither does she glance at the fully intact spinal cord, stained red by iron oxides fill ing the spaces where there was once organic material. She only has eyes for the deep chocolate-brown fossils: these are the ones containing p...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Tiffany Cassidy Tags: Palaeontology Climate crisis Endangered species Biodiversity Environment Science US news Source Type: news
‘Smell is really important for social communication’: how technology is ruining our senses
Scientists say an overreliance on sight and sound is having a detrimental effect on people ’s wellbeing and that our devices should deliver a multisensory experience“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothing yet.” So went the first line of audible dialogue in a feature film, 1927’sThe Jazz Singer. It was one of the first times that mass media had conveyed the sight and sound of a scene together, and the audience was enthralled.There have been improvements since: black and white has become colour, frame rates and resolutions have increased and sound quality has improved, but the media we consume still ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ned Carter Miles Tags: Technology Health & wellbeing Science Psychology Advertising Media Society Smartphones Food Artificial intelligence (AI) Life and style Business Source Type: news
Sisters make peace with dark memories through art, science and each other
Two sisters found they had different recollections of a traumatic childhood experience and learned that human memory is a lot less reliable than we tend to think. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gabriel Spitzer Source Type: news
